United States
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Liberal college bastions are taking body blows
Indosaurus recounts the reported plagiarism affair around Cambridge professor Jason Arday, compares it with Claudine Gay’s ousting at Harvard, and asks whether Indians and Pakistanis back progressive causes abroad yet…
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Open Trade: Peace Deal Reached
A one-line note on the oil price falling after Pakistan announced a US-Iran deal, asking who won, lost or drew, with peace reached on Trump’s 80th birthday.
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Open Thread: India, Israel, US & Iran
An open thread asking what has happened in the Middle East over the past six weeks, and whether India-US relations have become shakier.
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Mocking Modi Is the Only Nationalism Left-Liberals Know
X.T.M reads an anti-Modi cartoon on US tariffs as showing that India’s liberal critics now accept it belongs at the great-power table, and argues they offer no alternative to Modi’s…
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The Veil We Will Not Wear
A Bahá’í response to the ‘saffron and crescent’ post, arguing that the Bahá’í position is a distinct civilisational stance that begins with Táhirih unveiling at Badasht in 1848, and that…
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She carried an entire civilization in her hands
Sharing a Hindu American Foundation Mother’s Day note, the authors argue that Hinduism resists imperial pressure by evolving rather than hardening as they say Islam does, and that a civilisation…
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Open Thread: Pakistan’s Demons are The Daughters of God
Open thread opening on Pakistan’s diplomatic gains after Sindoor, including its role in a US-Iran memo, and on whether its real problem lies in its television dramas. It quotes commenter…
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Were You Colonised or Not? The UN Slavery Vote That Split the World
X.T.M reads the UN General Assembly vote declaring the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity as a West-versus-the-rest divide. With 123 in favour, the post argues the question…
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Is Hormuz, Israel’s Suez but Pakistan’s Second Act?
X.T.M asks whether the Iran war is Israel’s Suez, with Iran gaining leverage over Hormuz. The post argues Pakistan’s offer to host US-Iran talks is its second act, though it…
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The Hormuz Ultimatum: Wealth Doesn’t Win Wars
X.T.M disputes the view that military power follows GDP. He argues that the richer US-Israeli side is losing the economic war over Hormuz, and that Iran’s culture of honourable death…